1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 4ffee0de4SDavid Woodhouse default ARCH != "i386" 58f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 1282491451SRussell King select CLKSRC_I8253 13af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 163120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 173120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 184692d77fSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 19bc08b449SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg 211032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 24446f24d1SStephen Boyd select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2577fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 26e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 27a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 28cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 29be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64 30cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 31ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 3242d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 338761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 34cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 3528b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 363f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3772d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 380608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 39c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 401f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 41da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 427c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 430a2b9a6eSMarek Szyprowski select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB 449edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 45c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 46e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 47e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 48d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 49cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 50677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 52606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5348d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5471e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5560a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5666700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 577ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 58e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 5949793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 6099bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 61323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 6258340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 638d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 64f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 652118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 6930314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 7013510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 71f9b493acSKyungsik Lee select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 720067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 730102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7499e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 75c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 76c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 77c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 78b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 7999e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 80eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 81eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 822565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 830a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 847c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 85e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8646eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 877463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 88141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 89c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 903bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 913bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 92517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 93d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 94c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 95e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9615626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 970a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 98df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 994673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 100e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1017eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 102c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 103c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1048b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 105bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1060f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 109bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 111bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 112bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1134ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1145723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 116fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1174febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 118786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 119786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1201d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 12183a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 12215ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1235b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1245b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1253195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 126d1a1dc0bSDave Hansen select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 127a2cd11f7SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 1287d8330a5SBalbir Singh 129ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1303120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1313120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 132ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 13351b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 13451b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 13551b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 13651b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 13751b26adaSLinus Torvalds 13873531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 139b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 14073531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 14173531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 142b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 149aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 150aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 151aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1583bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1593120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1603120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1613bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 16218e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1634a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 16418e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1663120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1673120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 172b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 173b93a531eSJan Beulich 174b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 175b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1813120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1823120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1841032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1853120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1861032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1871032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1881032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1891032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1909a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1919a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1931b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1941b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1951b27d05bSPekka Enberg 196fad12ac8SThomas Renningerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE 197fad12ac8SThomas Renninger def_bool y 198fad12ac8SThomas Renninger 199dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 20089c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 201b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 20208fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 20308fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 20408fc4580STejun Heo 20508fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 20611124411STejun Heo def_bool y 20711124411STejun Heo 208801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 209801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 210801e4062SJohannes Berg 211f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 212f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 213f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 214cfe28c5dSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 215cfe28c5dSSteve Capper def_bool y 216cfe28c5dSSteve Capper 21753313b2cSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 21853313b2cSSteve Capper def_bool y 21953313b2cSSteve Capper 2208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 228765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 229765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 230765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2316a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2326a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2336a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 23469575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 23569575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 2366ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 23769575d38SShane Wang 2386b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2396b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2406b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2416b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2426b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2436b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2446b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2456b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2476fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 248ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 250ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 251ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 25260a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 253ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 254d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 255d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 256d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 257d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 258d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 2592b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2602b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2612b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 262506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 263dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2675ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2685ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2705ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2715ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2725ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2735ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2745ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2755ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2765ee71535SRandy Dunlap 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 299395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 30506cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 30606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 307d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 30806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 30906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 31006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 31206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 31306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 31506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3166695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3176e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3187a527688SJan Beulich default y 3195ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3216695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3226695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3236695c85bSYinghai Lu 32426f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 32526f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 32626f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32826f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 330ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 331ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 332ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 333ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 335c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 336c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 337c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 34006ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 34106ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 34206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3448425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 345cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3478425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 35083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3533f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 35406ac8346SIngo Molnar 35506ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35606ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 35806ac8346SIngo Molnar 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3648425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 37044b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3718425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3728425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3738425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3748425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3758425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3768425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 37944b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 38044b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 38544b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 386f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38744b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 38844b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 38944b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 39044b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 39103b48632SNick Piggin 3926a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 393c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3946276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 3956a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3966a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 397c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 398ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 3998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4006a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4016a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 4026a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 4036a48565eSIngo Molnar 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 40854c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4099d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 417ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 418ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 419ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_32 420cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 421ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 422ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 423ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 424ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 425ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 426c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 427c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 428c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 429c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 430c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 431c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43237bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 433da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 434da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 435b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 436c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 437c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 438c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 439c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 440c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 441dd137525SAlan Coxconfig X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 44243605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 44343605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 44443605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 44543605ef1SAlan Cox ---help--- 44643605ef1SAlan Cox Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID platform 44743605ef1SAlan Cox systems which do not have the PCI legacy interfaces (Moorestown, 44843605ef1SAlan Cox Medfield). If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 44943605ef1SAlan Cox 450dd137525SAlan Coxif X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 45143605ef1SAlan Cox 4524e2b1c4fSAlan Coxconfig X86_INTEL_MID 4534e2b1c4fSAlan Cox bool 4544e2b1c4fSAlan Cox 4551ea7c673SAlan Coxconfig X86_MDFLD 4561ea7c673SAlan Cox bool "Medfield MID platform" 4571ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4591ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4607c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select X86_INTEL_MID 4617c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4627c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4631ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4641ea7c673SAlan Cox select I2C 4651ea7c673SAlan Cox select SPI 4661ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 4671ea7c673SAlan Cox select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 46815a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4691ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4701ea7c673SAlan Cox Medfield is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4711ea7c673SAlan Cox Internet Device(MID) platform. 4721ea7c673SAlan Cox Unlike standard x86 PCs, Medfield does not have many legacy devices 4731ea7c673SAlan Cox nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Medfield does 4741ea7c673SAlan Cox not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4751ea7c673SAlan Cox 47643605ef1SAlan Coxendif 47743605ef1SAlan Cox 4783d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4793d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4803d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4813d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4820f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 4833d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4843d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4853d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4860f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 4870f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4883d48aab1SMika Westerberg 489c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 490c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 492c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 493c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 494c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 495c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 496c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 497c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 498c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 499c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 500e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5019c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 5029c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 503c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 5048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 50583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, 50683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic 50783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini binary kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it 50883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini one by one and will fallback to default. 509d49c4288SYinghai Lu 510c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 511d49c4288SYinghai Lu 512506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 514e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 515a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 5179c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 5188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 519d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 520d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 521d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 522d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 523d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 525d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 5266fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 527d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 528d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 529d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 530d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 531d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 532d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 533d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 534d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 5351b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 5361b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 537c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 538c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 539c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5401b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 5411b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 5421b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5431b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 5441b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5451b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 5461b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 5471b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 54883125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 54983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 55083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 55183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 55283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 55383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 55483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 55583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 55683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 55783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 55883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 55983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 56083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 56183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 56283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 56383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 5649c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 5659c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 566e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5689c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 5699c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 5701f972768SIngo Molnar 5719c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 572c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 57326f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 5748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5759c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5769c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 5779c398017SIngo Molnar 57882148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 57982148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 58082148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 58182148d1dSShérab ---help--- 58282148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 58382148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 58482148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 58582148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 58682148d1dSShérab 58782148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 58882148d1dSShérab 58982148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 59082148d1dSShérab 591ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 594a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6036276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 6046276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 6058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6066276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 6076276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 6086276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6106276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 6116276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6136276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 615e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 616e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 6178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 618e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 619e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 620e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 621e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 622e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 6236276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 6246276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 6256276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 6266276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6276276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 6286276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 6296276a074SBorislav Petkov 630b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 631b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 6326ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 6338db73266SRaghavendra K T select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 634b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 635b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 636b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 637b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 638b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6394c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 6404c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 641b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6424c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 643b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6446276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 6456276a074SBorislav Petkov 6466276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 6476276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 6486276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6496276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6506276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 6516276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6526276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 6536276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 6546276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 6556276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 6566276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6576276a074SBorislav Petkov 6581e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 6591e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 6601e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 6611e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default n 6621e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 6631e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 6641e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 6651e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 6661e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 6676276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6686276a074SBorislav Petkov 6696276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6706276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6716276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6726276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6736276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6746276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6756276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6766276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6776276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6786276a074SBorislav Petkov 6796276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6806276a074SBorislav Petkov 6817af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6827af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6837af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6846276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 68597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 68608677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 687774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 68808677214SYinghai Lu 68903273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 69003273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 692c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 69303273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 69403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 69503273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 69603273184SYinghai Lu ... 69703273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 698aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 7013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 702e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 7053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 706f9b15df4SAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_SUMMIT 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 7113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 7138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 721e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 7303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7319d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 733bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 734933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 735933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 73606c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 737a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 738bb24c471SJacob Pan help 739bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 740bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 741bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 742bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 743bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 744bb24c471SJacob Pan 7456a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 7477ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 7487ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 7496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 7508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7517ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 7527ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 7537ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 7547ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 7557ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 75738901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 75923ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 761ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 762ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 763ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 764ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 765ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 766ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 767ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 768ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 769ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 770ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 771ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 772ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 773ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 774ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 775ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7806ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 808a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 8098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 8114454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 8124454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 8134454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 8144454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 816a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 8173120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 8183120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 819d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 8201184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 821ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 8226ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 82336f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 8248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 825ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 8261184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 82936f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 8302a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 831bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 832b53b5edaSJosh Boyer range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 83378637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 834b53b5edaSJosh Boyer default "8192" if MAXSMP 83578637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 83678637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 8378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 839bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 840bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 848b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 8563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 858b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 8680dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD && !PCI_MSI 8698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8930dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8970dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 9003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 90341b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 90441b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 90541b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 9068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 90741b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 90841b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 90941b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 91041b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 91141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 91241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 91341b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 91441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 91541b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 91641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 91741b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 91841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 91941b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 92041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 92141b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 92241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 92341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 92441b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 92541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 927bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 928e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 930bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 931bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 933bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 9344efc0670SAndi Kleen 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 9363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 938c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 9443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 946c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9514efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 9526fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 953c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 9544efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 9554efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 9564efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 9574efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 9584efc0670SAndi Kleen 959b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 960b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9616fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 962b2762686SAndi Kleen 963ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 964c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 965ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 966ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 967ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 968ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 969ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 970ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9714efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9724efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9735bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9744efc0670SAndi Kleen 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 1003949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 10239ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 10249ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 10335e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 1040e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 104180030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1044e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 104680cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 1047e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 1048e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 1049e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 1050e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10528d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10538d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1056e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10588d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1059e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10608d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10618d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10628d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10648d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10658d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10668d86f390SPeter Oruba 1067*b8989db9SAlan For the current Intel microcode data package go to 1068*b8989db9SAlan <https://downloadcenter.intel.com> and search for 1069*b8989db9SAlan 'Linux Processor Microcode Data File'. 10708d86f390SPeter Oruba 107180cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1072e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 107380cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 107480cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 107680cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 107780cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 107880cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1083da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB 1084da76f64eSFenghua Yu def_bool y 1085da76f64eSFenghua Yu depends on MICROCODE_INTEL 1086da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1087da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1088757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1089757885e9SJacob Shin 1090757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY 1091757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1092757885e9SJacob Shin 1093757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1094da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 10956b3389acSJacob Shin depends on MICROCODE=y && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1096757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY if MICROCODE_INTEL 1097757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY if MICROCODE_AMD 1098da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1099da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1100da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1101da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1102da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1103da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1104da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 11078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 11168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 11256fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 11688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1174eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11836a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1197506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 12263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 12309ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 12328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1238600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 12393120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12403120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1241600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 124266f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 12433120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12443120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 124566f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 12469e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 12476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 12489e899816SNick Piggin default y 12499e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 12508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12519e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 12529e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 12539e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 12549e899816SNick Piggin 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1257fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 12596ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI)) 12600699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 12618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1263fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1268c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1269fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1270fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1271fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1272fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1273fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1274fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1275fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1280eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12835da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1285eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1286eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1287eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1288eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1289eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12996ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 13006ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 13016ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 13026ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 13036ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 13046ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 13056ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 13066ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 13076ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 13101b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 13118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1317d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 131851591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 131951591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 13248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13251184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1326692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 13293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 13333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13383b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1340506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1342b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1346b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1347b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13506ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13543b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13553b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13563b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 13573b16651fSTejun Heo 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1360b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1363a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 13643120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1365a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1366a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1367a0842b70SToshi Kani See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1368a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13703b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 13713b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13723b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13733b16651fSTejun Heo 1374a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1375a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1376a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1377a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1378a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13836fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13909f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13919f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13939f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13949f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13959f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13979f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 14009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 14019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 14039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 14049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 14059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 14069f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 14089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 14099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 14109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 14119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1412c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1413c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1414c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1415c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 14168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1417c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1418c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1419c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 14209ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1421d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1422d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1423d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 14248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1425d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1426fc381519SIngo Molnar 1427d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1428d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1429fc381519SIngo Molnar 1430d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1431d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1432d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1433d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1434fc381519SIngo Molnar 1435d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1436d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1437d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1438d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1439d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1440d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1441d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1442d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1443d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1444d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1445d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1446d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1447d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1448fc381519SIngo Molnar 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14766fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14776a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15087225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 151095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 15112ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 151295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 151395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 15148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1515aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1516aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 151795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1518aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1519692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1520aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 152195ffa243SYinghai Lu 15222ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 152395ffa243SYinghai Lu 152495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1525f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1526f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1527f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 152895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 15298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1530f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 153195ffa243SYinghai Lu 153212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 153312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 153412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 153512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 153612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 15378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 153812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1539aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 154012031a62SYinghai Lu 15412e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 15426fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 15436a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 15442a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 15458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 15462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1547042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 15482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 15492e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 15502e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15512e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1552042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 15532e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15542e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 15552e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 155646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 155746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 155846cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 155946cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1560628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1561628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1562628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1563628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1564628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1565628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1566628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1567628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1568628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 156951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 157051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 157151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 157251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 157351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 157451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 157551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 157651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 157751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 157851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 157951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15819ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15825b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1583f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15858b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15888b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15898b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15908b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15918b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15928b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15938b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1595291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1596291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1597291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1598291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1599291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1600291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1601291f3632SMatt Fleming 16024172fe2fSRoy Franz See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. 16030c759662SMatt Fleming 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 16053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 16063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 16078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 16149c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 16212a8ac745SJean Delvare bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" 16228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1624113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1625113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1633113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1634113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1638506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 16408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1650bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 1651bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 1652bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 165504b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 16578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16683ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 16696ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1670fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 16718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 167289081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 167389081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16743ab83521SHuang Ying 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1677ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1696ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1697ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1698ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1699ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1700ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1701ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1702ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1703ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1704ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1716506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 171726717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 171826717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 17198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1733845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1734845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1735845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1736845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1737845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1738506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1739a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 1740ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1741a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 1742a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 17438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1760a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 1761a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 1762a0215061SKees Cook 1763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1765506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17667c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 176740b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 1768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17697c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17707c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17717c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17727c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17737c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 177580aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 177680aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 177780aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17782c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 177980aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 178080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 178180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 178380aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 178480aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 178580aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178680aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 178780aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 178880aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 178980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 179080aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 179180aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 179280aa1dffSFenghua Yu 179380aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 179480aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 179580aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 179680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 179780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 179880aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 179980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 180080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 180180aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 180280aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 180380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1804a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1805a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1806a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 18072c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1808a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1809a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1810a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1811a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1812a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1813a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1814a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1815a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1816a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1817a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1818a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1819506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 18203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1822af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 18238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1824af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1825e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1832516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1833516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 18348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1835516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1836516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1837516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1838516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1839516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1840516cbf37STim Bird 1841516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1842516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1843516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1844516cbf37STim Bird 1845516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1846516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1847516cbf37STim Bird 1848516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1849516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1850516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1851516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1853516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1854516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1855516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1856516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1857516cbf37STim Bird 1858516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1859516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1860516cbf37STim Bird 1861516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1862516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1863516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1864516cbf37STim Bird 1865516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1866516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1867516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1869516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1870516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1871516cbf37STim Bird 1872516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1873516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1874516cbf37STim Bird 1875506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1877506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 188135551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 188235551053SGary Hade def_bool y 188335551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 188435551053SGary Hade 1885e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1886645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1887e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1888e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 18899491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 18909491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 18919491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 18929491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 1893da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1903efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1904efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1905a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 19066fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1907282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1908a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1911efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 19272dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 19282dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1995dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 20088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 20218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2031bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 203527471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 203627471fdbSAndy Henroid 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 20431ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 20441c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 20458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2053efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2061e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2062e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2063e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2064e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2066e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2067e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2068e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20793ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 208076fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20813ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20823ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20832bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20842bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20852bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2088e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2090efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2092e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2093e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20950aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2096e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20995f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21013ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 21022bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 21032bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 21043ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2105b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2106b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2107b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2108b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2109b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2110e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 21113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2112e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2115e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2116e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21183f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 21196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 21206ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 21213f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 21223f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 21233f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 21243f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 21253f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 212664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 212764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 212864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 212964a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 213064a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2132e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2133e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2134e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21351c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2136e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 21371c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 21381c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 21391c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 21401c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 21411c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2143e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2144e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2145e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2146e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2148e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2149e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2150e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2151e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2152e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2153e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2154e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2155e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2156e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2157e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2158e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2159e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2160e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2161e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2162e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2163e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2164e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2165e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2166e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2167e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2169e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2170e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2171e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2172e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2173e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2175e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2176e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2177e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2178e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2179e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2180e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2181e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2182e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2183e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2184592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2185e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2187e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2188e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2189e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2190e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2191e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2192e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21933ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21943ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 219554008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21963c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2197dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 219845bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2199b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 22008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22013ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 22023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 22033ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2204a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2205a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 220697c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2207a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2208bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 220997c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2210bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2211cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2212cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2213cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2214cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2215cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2216cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2217cfee9597SDaniel Drake 22187feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 22197feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2220d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2221ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2222d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 22237feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 22247feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 22257feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 22267feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 22277bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 22287feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 22297bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 22302cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2231e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2232e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 22337feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2234a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2235a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2236d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2237d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2238a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2239a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2240a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2241a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2242a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2243e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2244d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2245d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2246d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2247d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2248d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2249d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2250d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2251d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2252d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2253d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2254d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2255d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2256d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2257d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2258da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2259da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2260da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2261da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2262da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2263da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22643197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22653197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22663197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22673197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22683197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22693197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22703197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22717d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22727d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22737d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22747d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22757d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22767d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22777d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22787d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22797d029125SVivien Didelot 2280e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2281e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 228223ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2283e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22840e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2285e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2286e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2287e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2288e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2290388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2291fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine tristate "RapidIO support" 2292388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2293388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2294388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2295fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine If enabled this option will include drivers and the core 2296388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2297388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2298388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2299388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2300e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2301e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2302e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2303e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2304e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2305e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2306e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2307e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2308e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2309e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2310e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2311e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann modes, it is adverticed as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2312e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2313e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2314e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2315e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2316e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2317e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2318e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2319e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2320e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2321e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2322e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2323e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2324e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2325e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2326e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2327e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2328e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2329e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2330e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2331e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2332e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2333e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2336d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2337a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2338af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 23398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 23405fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 23415fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 23425fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2343e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2344e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2345e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 23466b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 23478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2348e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2349e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23500bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 23516ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 23526ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 23535fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 23545fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 23555fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 23565fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 23575fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 23585fd92e65SH. J. Lu 23595fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 23605fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 23615fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 23625fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2363e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 23643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23650bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 236648b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2367e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23683120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2369e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23703120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2371e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2372e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23743120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2375e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2376ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23773120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23783120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23793120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2380ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2381e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2382e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2383e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2384e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2385e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2386e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2387e5beae16SKeith Packard 23884692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23894692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 239083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23914692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2392f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2393f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 239483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2395f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 2396e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2397e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2398e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2399e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2400e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2401e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2402e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2403e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2404e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2405e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2406e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2407e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2408e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2409e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2410edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2411edf88417SAvi Kivity 2412e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2413